Pressing-pad



I I l l I i C. M. GOUGH.

PRESSING PAD. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1920.

Patented Eept. 6,1921",

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

CHARLES M. GO'UGH, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALFTO JOHN KITTINGER, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

PRESSING-PAIJ.

L39Q12fl Specification of Letters Patent. Paflbqgntgd @gpt, 1921.

Application filed June 15, 1920. Serial No. 389,127.

To all whom z'tmmyoncem: ers and secured thereto by soldering or oth- Be it known that I, CHARLES M. GoU'eH, a erwise. citizen of the United States, residin at Secured to the bottom of the pad and ex-- East St. Louis, in the county of St. lair tending longitudinally thereof are two laterand State of Illinois, have invented certain a y spaced reinforcing rods 9 as is shown new and useful Improvements in a Press- 0 early in Fig. 3. Attaching means for the ing-Pad, of which the following is a specifipad are shown in the form of a plurality of cation. r copper straps 10 which extend transversely This invention relates to pressing pads across the bottom layer 6 of the pad under for laundries, tailor shops, households and the rods 9 and have their ends projected latthe like. 7 a erally beyond the side edges of the pad be- The object of the invention is to provide ing adapted to be bent down under the a pad of this character so constructed as to steam chest 1 as is shown clearly in Figs. 4 be substantially permanently resilient, and and 5. Similar straps 11 extend longitudiwhich permits the free passage of steam nally from the ends of thepad and are here therethrough. s own connected at their inner ends to the Another object is to rovide a pad of this cross straps 10.

character equipped wit simple and eflicient I coyering 12 of any suitable fabric is armeans for securing it in operative position ranged over the top, side and end walls of on a steam board or buck. the pad and as shown has a layer of fibrous Another object is to provide improved rematerial 13 interposed between it and the inforcing means for such a pad. top screen wire fabric .7 (see Fig. 5).

With these and other objects in view, the From the above description it will be 0binvention consists in certaln nos/e1 features vious that a pad constructed as shown and of construction as hereinafter shown and described will e permanently resilient or described and then specifically pointed out in substantially so and will yet permit the free the claim, and in the drawings illustrative passage of steam from t-e chest 1 in conof the preferred embodiment of the invennection with which it is used up through the tion. pad to the pressing surface thereof and In the accompanying drawings: .which is desirable for pressing mens suits Figure 1 represents a lan view of a steam and the like. The covering extending chest for a pressing machine. around the sides and ends of the pad re- Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the pad convents the escape of steam to the surroun ing stituting this invention. atmosphere and directs it onto the pressing ig. 3 is a bottom plan view thereof. surface of the pad.

\ 1g. 4 is a side elevation with parts The preferred embodiment of the invenbroken OlltgOf the pad shown applied, and, tion is disclosed in the drawings and set 1g. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view forth in the specification, but it will be unof the pad shown applied to a steam chest derstood that any modifications within the parts being in elevation. scope of the clann may be made in the con- In the embodiment illustrated the pad struction without departing from the prinused in connection with a steam chest 1 of its advantages. usual construction having the ordinary per- What I claim is:

forations2 therein to permit the passage of A pressing pad composed of upper and steam from the chest through the pad which lower layers of copper mesh wire with clearly in Figs. 4 and 5. tiereto, laterally spaced reinforcing rods 1% he pad 5 which constitutesthis invensecured to and extending longitudinally of tion is composed of upper and low.erlayers the bottom of the pad, a plurality of pliable of copper mesh wire 6 and-7 with coiled metal attaching straps arraned transbrass springs 8 interposed between the layversely of said bottom under sai rods with 9 1,390,124 their ends projecting beyond the side edges of fibrous material interposed between it of the pad and adapted to be bent around a and the upper mesh wire, the bottom afiordsteam chest, similar straps arranged longiing a substantially unobstructed passage 10 tudinally of the ends of the pad and secured f r the steam to he interior of'the pad.

5 to two of said transverse straps between In te timony whereof, I affix my signature said rods, a fabric covering arranged over heret y I said top, sides and ends of the pad a layer CHARLES M. GOUGH. 

